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Towards Environment Independent Device Free Human Activity Recognition

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Jiang, Wenjun, Miao, Chenglin, Ma, Fenglong, Yao, Shuochao, Wang, Yaqing, Yuan, Ye, Xue, Hongfei, Song, Chen +4 more·2018·Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

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Driven by a wide range of real-world applications, significant efforts have recently been made to explore device-free human activity recognition techniques that utilize the information collected by various wireless infrastructures to infer human activities without the need for the monitored subject to carry a dedicated device. Existing device free human activity recognition approaches and systems, though yielding reasonably good performance in certain cases, are faced with a major challenge. The wireless signals arriving at the receiving devices usually carry substantial information that is specific to the environment where the activities are recorded and the human subject who conducts the activities. Due to this reason, an activity recognition model that is trained on a specific subject in a specific environment typically does not work well when being applied to predict another subject's activities that are recorded in a different environment. To address this challenge, in this paper, we propose EI, a deep-learning based device free activity recognition framework that can remove the environment and subject specific information contained in the activity data and extract environment/subject-independent features shared by the data collected on different subjects under different environments. We conduct extensive experiments on four different device free activity recognition testbeds: WiFi, ultrasound, 60 GHz mmWave, and visible light. The experimental results demonstrate the superior effectiveness and generalizability of the proposed EI framework.

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Authors
Jiang, W., Miao, C., Ma, F., Yao, S., Wang, Y., Yuan, Y., Xue, H., Song, C., Ma, X., Koutsonikolas, D., Xu, W., & Su, L.
Affiliations
  • University at Buffalo, State University of New York (US)
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
  • Beijing University of Technology (CN)
  • State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
Venue
Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
Publisher
ACM
Published
2018-10-15
Pages
289-304
ISSN
1543-5679 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2897132279
Cited by
573
References
62
Citations by year
2026: 42 · 2025: 75 · 2024: 93 · 2023: 79 · 2022: 85 · 2021: 94 · 2020: 71 · 2019: 32 · 2018: 1 · 2012: 1
FWCI
14.92
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Science Foundation (CNS-1652503,CNS-1629929)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies
  • Social Sciences › Transportation › Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
Keywords
cross-subject generalization, cross-environment generalization, WiFi sensing, ultrasonic sensing, visible light detection, feature extraction, deep learning

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